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They're all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something .

They'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something.

He later told me that the spooks were nothing to do with it.

Some of its soldiers and spooks sympathise with and help the Taliban, out of both ethnic-Pushtun fellow-feeling and strategic intent.

But if judges, elected politicians and voters do not have confidence in their spooks, the system unravels.

China in particular spooks America-and may do so even more over the next few weeks of Olympic medal-gathering.

The Taliban enjoy a haven in Pakistan (and perhaps the help of some of its spooks) but they have no state sponsor.

Aerials that look a bit like fish-skeletons are used by the spooks at Britain's GCHQ, a strategic eavesdropping organisation.

Vang Pao leant on his network of former spooks, soldiers and diplomats to twist arms in Washington, DC, and win help for his kinsmen.

In France spooks have been called in to investigate whether China was behind the espionage that targeted Renault's electric-car technology.

Under the rule of the authoritarian populist, Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia had become a playground for crooks and spooks.

The next time American spooks want some secret help, they may find their allies less handy, an official notes.

Nazi front companies ran global money-laundering operations from there and Madrid was always a nest of spooks.

Soon after, he became security minister, developing a lasting distaste for the continuing influence of old communist spooks in public life.

Others disagree. America's spooks stand by their 2007 assessment that Iran had such a programme, but called a halt in 2003.

and the Haunted Mansion, a riotous "doom buggy" tour in the company of the house spooks.

Superficially, the similarities with the spooks who reunited my parents are striking.

Allowing academics to rummage in secret files presents problems both for the spooks and the academics.

Mysteriously, South Korean spooks later reported he was recovering from surgery.

Another, headed by Sir Peter Gibson, a former judge, will soon probe alleged collusion between British spooks and foreign torturers.

Ironically, another headline in the same paper on the same day said, "Spending Spooks India's Sensex. "

The spooks (n. ) call it "open-source intelligence" , and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential.

He resented Mr Putin and the low-ranking spooks who surrounded him, especially when they scorned the 1990s as a wasted decade.

The spooks call it "open source intelligence" , and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential.

Iraq still rankles: many spooks are sore about the damage done to their reputations by the government's exaggeration of the intelligence.

Other groups in the Russian elite have also followed the spooks' lead.

Any failure or uncertainty in either area spooks markets.

"The spooks have got some pretty big machines, " said Dr Lockley.

The amusement park spooks its visitors with ghosts.

All of these cost money to produce; in the case of TV dramas such as Spooks that my company produces, a huge amount.

Now Western spooks claim he is behind the currency reform.

Now, the country that once crawled with spooks has been invaded by tourists.

Every time a bomb goes off in Pakistan, people believe that one of the country's own spooks lit the fuse.

Janitor: sir, sir, don't beat him. This is amusement park, and all spooks are people. You will kill him if you beat again.

It is that prospect that spooks everyone else in the EU, and the world economic order generally.

Yes, in our creepy social media world of Facebook, Google and Twitter, we can all become spooks.

Furthermore, people in China know that the spooks are monitoring these sites.

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